Into each of the 500-odd warplanes produced in the U.S. last week went many times as much magnesium as the total U.S. production of this soft, silvery metal in 1914. And thereby hangs a tale: > Of how ...

Magrathea’s new electrolyzer can make magnesium using electricity. A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The ...

Magnesium’s story begins with an undefined substance that 14th-century alchemists called “magnesia,” inspired by a classical Greece region, to make the substance sound ancient and mysterious. In the ...

Different methods are employed to vary cooling rates for magnesium alloys during the solidification process from liquid to solid phase and after the solution/aging heat treatment. These include using ...

Since ancient times, humans have extracted salts, like table salt, from the ocean. While table salt is the easiest to obtain, seawater is a rich source of different minerals, and researchers are ...

Indian automakers are increasingly focusing on manufacturing lighter cars so TVS group company Sundaram Clayton has started trial magnesium casting production at its Padi plant in the southern Indian ...